On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 07:16:56PM -0300, André Nunes Batista wrote: > On Fri, 2014-04-18 at 10:19 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > > On 18/04/14 12:33 AM, Corey Blair wrote: > > > I got a new laptop without a CD/DVD drive and am trying to install off > > > a USB image and either dual boot my pre-installed windows 8.1 or just > > > wipe and use strictly Debian. I get all the way to the point of > > > installing GRUB and it fails. I've read that this may have something > > > to do with the disk being GPT instead of MBR? How do I get a dual > > > boot Windows 8.1 and Debian Wheezy install? Or at the least have > > > Debian successfully installed (although I'm afraid of wiping the HDD > > > and losing the ability to revert back to Windows) > > > > > > > > You may not be able to. The problem may be that Wheezy is too old. > > Coexistence with UEFI is still developing. > > > > However, Wheezy can handle GPT disks just fine. > > > > To test this, turn of UEFI in the BIOS and try the install again. To > > make things easier, first use Windows disk manager to shrink the Windows > > partition. Create a new partition in the free space and also leave a > > small empty (a few hundred megabytes) space somewhere for the EFI System > > Partition. > > > > Then start the Wheezy install. If that works, turn UEFI back on and try > > booting into both OSs. > > > > > > It is possible to install debian wheezy with uefi enabled, take a look: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2014/03/msg01372.html > > and the subsequent answer by Andrew. > > -- > André N. Batista > GNUPG/PGP KEY: 6722CF80 >
If Legacy BIOS settings are turned off, so that the machine will boot only from UEFI an install of Debian 7 Wheezy will work: I have two machines here installed just that way. You will need to tab down to the advanced options as you boot the installer and select expert mode : at that point, you can also choose which desktop to install. You may be able to install a very basic machine by using dd to write the DVD image to an 8G USB stick. AndyC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140419201247.ga5...@galactic.demon.co.uk
